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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Paris
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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